SEPTEMBER 15 & 17 2023
Everywhere
join us in the streets, or online using #EndFossilFuels #fastfairforever
On September 15 to 17, millions of people around the world will take to the streets to demand a rapid, just, and equitable end to fossil fuels.
This wave of global mobilisations will include the March to #EndFossilFuels fast, fair, forever in New York City on September 17, as world leaders attend the United Nations Secretary General’s Climate Ambition Summit.
This historic mobilisation renews and reinforces the globally coordinated efforts focused on ending the era of fossil fuels. The scale of this mobilisation and the urgency of the moment underscore the devastating impacts of recent record breaking heat, deadly floods, and increased extreme weather events.
The climate crisis is escalating and in response so is the global movement for climate justice. Across the globe, we are coming together to fight back against the fossil fuel industry and its enablers.
Together, we are unstoppable as we build and imagine a fossil fuel-free world.
Why Mobilise?
The biggest cause of climate change are fossil fuels - coal, oil and gas.
The fossil fuel industry and its enablers are responsible for the climate crisis and drive a predatory and destructive economic system that harms peoples and the planet.
Peoples and communities across the world have tirelessly campaigned against coal, oil, and gas for decades while the fossil fuel industry has known about the harm they cause and have used every trick to keep their profits flowing.
The same industry is pushing harmful and dangerous distractions – carbon markets, offsets, and removals in the forms of so-called ‘nature based solutions’ and geoengineering meant to keep itself in business longer and not secure a livable future.
The science is clear: what the world needs now is a rapid and just transition to an efficient, fair, and universal energy system based on clean energy sources, and produced with respect for nature and the sovereign rights of Indigenous peoples and local communities.
The responsibility lies with the leaders of rich nations with a historical legacy of pollution to deliver a fast and fair phase out of fossil fuels and fund it globally. This transition must be underpinned by transformation of current systems that prioritises justice and equitable socio economic structures, real zero over net zero, while safeguarding workers’ rights and communities.
This September, the global climate justice movement will escalate our actions to strengthen and broaden existing movements and campaigns.
Together we will #EndFossilFuels - fast, fair and forever.
Our Demands
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No new fossil fuels
No new projects, finance - public or private- subsidies and no new approvals, licences, permits, or extensions. Provision of sufficient, consensual, predictable, public and grant-based climate funding raised through just taxation reform and other innovative public measures to realise this commitment everywhere. Debt cancellation across all creditors so countries have the resources to transition and are no longer forced to exploit fossil fuels to generate revenue to repay debt.
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A rapid, just and equitable phase out
Phase out existing infrastructure in line with the 1.5C temperature limit and a global plan, like a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, in order to ensure that each country does its fair part.
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New Commitments for International Cooperation
Drastically scale up financial and technology transfers to ensure renewable energy access, economic diversification plans, and Just Transition processes so that every country and community can phase out fossil fuels. In light of the climate debt and reparations owed to communities and countries experiencing the worst impacts of the climate crisis, financial and technology transfers must be understood as reparations, not aid.
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Stop greenwashing
Stop claiming that offsets, carbon capture and storage, nature based solutions or geoengineering are solutions to the climate crisis.
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Hold polluters responsible for the damage they've caused
Make sure it's coal, oil, and gas corporations that pay reparations for climate loss and damage and for local rehabilitation, remediation and transition through global corporate tax justice and accountability mechanisms.
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End fossil fuel corporate capture
NO to corporations writing the rules of climate action, bankrolling or participating in climate talks, or undermining the global response to climate change.
A GLOBAL call to action
This is a call to solidarity with Indigenous and First Nations across the world who have been fighting the deadly fossil fuel industry and its enablers for decades.
We need all hands on deck to keep building a fossil fuel-free world: youth activists, civil society organisations, social movements, feminist and migrant rights groups, trade unions, faith institutions, academic centres, health institutions, families and peoples of all genders and backgrounds, everywhere, all voices matter!
Action can take many forms: speakouts, art installations, marches, protests, strikes, occupations, forums, gatherings, civil disobedience or digital mobilisations.
Actions and events can focus on any of the harms that the fossil fuel industry poses to our communities and ecosystems, as well as those who enable the fossil fuel industry: governments, financial institutions and other industries. We can show we have the solutions.
Join us!
Together, we are unstoppable and already building and imagining the fossil fuel free world!
To have any hope of addressing the root causes of the climate crisis, leaders of the biggest polluting countries must deliver a fast and fair phase out of fossil fuels and fund it globally.
The climate crisis is escalating and in response so is the global movement for climate justice. This September, we will scale the largest-ever global demand to #EndFossilFuels #FastFairForever
Join us.